a spokesman for senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said: and a spokesman for house speaker john boehner said: "we at the same time, republican leaders on the house energy and commerce committee welcomed the president's plan, and said it should also include meaningful regulatory reform. for more on the proposal and reaction from the business community and capitol hill, we're joined by steven dennis, who covers the white house and congress for roll call and hans nichols, a white house reporter for bloomberg. welcome to you both. beginning with you, steven dennis, fill out thisújust a little more for us. he's only asking for two different votes. >> yeah, the first thing he wants this is fast-track authority which hasn't been around fair while that gives the president really a lot more power to go to congress and say, "here's my plan to reorganize government. i want a vote up or down in 90 days, no filibusters, no messing with it in committee, no tacking on all these amendments." the the idea here is we have a very complex government. if keeps getting more complex. we have more layers adde